The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Slim Dusty Sings Stan Coster] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:05.28]I come ridin' down the Barwon with my saddle and my swag [00:09.96]Strapped across the bony framework of a long backed chestnut nag [00:14.39] [00:15.81]I was headin' for a station on the stockroute west of Bourke [00:20.24] [00:20.92]To tangle with an outlaw horse well known in campfire talk [00:24.96] [00:26.66]When I rode down to the stockyard where they said I'd find the boss [00:31.01] [00:31.72]Standing just inside I saw the big roan outlaw horse [00:35.74] [00:37.41]He was just the kind of horseflesh a ringer dreams about [00:42.24]Game eye and good strong shoulders and front legs well spaced out [00:46.56] [00:49.24]I said now boss is that the horse the ringers rave about [00:53.41] [00:54.03]I've heard of him at Camooweal and even further out [00:58.24] [01:00.12]Yes he's been tried by desert men and riders from the gulf [01:04.36] [01:04.91]He said I'd give my station to the man that calls his bluff [01:09.12] [01:10.90]And as I strapped the bridle on that proud and shapely head [01:14.84] [01:15.53]I pictured me as owner of his big merino spread [01:19.72] [01:21.44]I threw my Schneider poley on and tightened up the girth [01:25.93] [01:26.60]And as I stepped astride him the big horse left this earth [01:30.69] [01:32.43]He left the ground in one tight ball as solid as a stone [01:36.54] [01:37.40]And all that I could see around was one big blur of roan [01:41.38] [01:43.08]I hit him with my goosenecks around the shoulder points [01:47.27] [01:47.93]He twisted like a reptile that had a million joints [01:51.98] [01:53.77]He dropped his shoulders way down low and chopped out to the right [01:58.64]He started striking at the bit each time the spurs did bite [02:03.29] [02:04.45]I thought I felt him weaken so I voiced a victory yell [02:08.71] [02:09.35]What happened then I only know for those who saw it tell [02:13.63] [02:16.44]So I rode way from the station with my saddle and my swag [02:20.83] [02:21.35]Strapped across the bony framework of the same old chestnut nag [02:25.84] [02:27.38]And just as I was leaving he whinnied loud and shrill [02:31.62] [02:32.40]And even after all these years I fancy I hear him still [02:36.42] [02:38.17]They still tell yarns about him around the campfire blaze [02:42.56] [02:43.12]Of the noted riders that he's thrown so many different ways [02:47.42] [02:49.03]And while I'm taking night watch on a cattle camp alone [02:53.30] [02:53.81]I try to figure how I lost the battle with the roan